Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-01-24
State News.
ANDROSCO6eIy.

The Calumet Club, an organization com
posed of prominent Lewiston citizens, has
chosen officers "a follows: President, Hon.
). b. Ham; Vice President, Hon A. r
Savage; Secretary, w. H. Newell Treasurer,
h. Z. Pingree; Executive Committee, NJ. H.
kimball, ID. E Parlin and T. E. Eustis.
1t is said two Lewiston ladies have fallen
heir to legacies of SIS, 900 each, by the death
OF an uncle IN Skoshegan. One of the said
to-be fortunate ladies is Mrs. Lew Keys.
ARoosTooK.
travelling man who has been in Aroostook
county saws that bear was found in the 70 ad
frozen to death in one of the recent cold
snaps. The Fairfield Journal explains that
bruln will stand a great amount of cold in his
den, but when driven out where he is I'M
sheltered he dies very quickly.
KNOX.
Rockland man has a chair that is known
to be more than $50 years of age 1t is
sound and comfortable-a PECULIARLY of
those old-tlme pieces of furniture. and bids
fair to stand the strain for another century
and half.
LINCOLN.
little son of Henry johnson of Waldo
boro, got bis fingers in the cogs of clothes
wringsr, Wednesday, and the flesh was taken
completely off the bone. The little fellow is
doing we'll
PgNOBsCOT.
Mr.. II. l.. Gordon of West Garland is re-
moving his cardng machinery and also a
steam boiler purchased from mill in Sanger
vile, to Caribou, where he will carry on busi-
ness in the future.
The Penobscot Steam Navigation Company
have not vet fully decided in regard to the
model of their new boat but will probably
accept one that has been made for them by
Mr.. Hathorn, at Stetson's Marine Railway.
They are now recsiving estimates on the
machinery for the boat. The New England
Ship Building Company of Bath, are figuring
on the whole work
Three stage lines run across Moosehead
Lake, daily, says the Wig. The road across
the lake is kept well brushed ont so that there
ID no danger of missing it during or after a
storm
The jockey Higgins, who was so terribly
injured at the New England Fair
races at Bangor last fall and who
nearly recovered at the city aims
house. has, it is said, relapsed into perfect
ly insane condition. He is not at all violent
but the most of the time acts like child.
The money order. sold at the Orono post
office for the year ended Oct. 10Th, 1886,
amounted to S6S58 40. Fees on the same,
S48.S9. The postal notes sold for the same
period aggregate 1929 67. Fees on the
same $40 IS; making the gross receipts from
this branch of the postal department, reach
the sum of S., 1913
PIsCATAoUIs.
The Monson Refrigerator Company have
filled an order from Apalachicola, Fla, for
half-dozen of their forty-pound slate-lined
butterboxes. The boxes before being sent
south were filled with splendid butter from
the Foxcroft creamery.
SAGADAHoC.
About three weeks ago, Michael, the eleven
year old son of Richard Neagle, of Bath, was
slightly injured in the abdomen while sliding
The boy did not, it seems. mention the fact
TO his parents. Wednesday night he was
taken i'll very suddenly, and a physician was
called. The boy told him about the accident
that he had met with. Everything possible
was done to relieve young Neagle who died
in few hours after being taken ill of peri
tonitis
SOMERSET.
The Pioneer Wooden Mill, X. Dobson &
Co propretors, Pittsield, manufactured
during 1886, 507, $50 yards of ga goods. This
amount, according to the estimates, would
measure 298 miles if stretched out in a con-
tinuous line. 1t would also be sufficient for
~. sos gentlemen's full suits. To manufac
ture the above 450, 900 pounds of clean stock
were required
NoRRIDGEwoCK-Our correspondent writes
Jan. 81: 1t is unusually sickly here. Lewis
Eldrdge Mrs. j. C. Bigelow, Mrs. w. p.
Baker, having died within ten days, of
pneumonia. w. II Taylor, Elmer f. Long
ley. Geo A. Hussey, and the only child of
w B. Whiting, are now sick with the same
diseasc.-Miss Jane +. Butler, at one time
in the millinery and fancy goods business
here died Thursday, of gastric fever, this
being the third sckGess of the same nature
which she had experienced within five years.
Mrs w II. Taylor is sick with bilious
fever but both she and her husband are con-
valescing.-Mr. ID. II. keves, subject to ep-
ieptic fits, fell in one out doors the early
part of the week and was severely frozen,
from the effects of which he died Friday
Bates Post G.. A. r., will send delegation of
six of its members to the encampment at Bath
next week
WALDO.
Mr.. John Bedding of Palermo has received
pension of 50, 307 by way of his son Charles,
VINO LOST MS nedith III Tue army auu fecei'eu
discharge and came home sick and died.
AT LARGE.
The following pensions were granted to
Maine people, Thursday Deborah NJ. mother
of John Al. Dodge, Maplewood; Louise,
widow of George d. Shaw, Winterport;
Alice S Morse, mother of Edward c. Meg
guire. Skowhegan; Benz p. Frost original,
Calais; Albert Titcomb, increase, Farming
ton; Albert G. Brick. increase, R,bbinston !;
John C. Young, New Portland; Edward
Flynn increase. Calais; John L. Thompson,
increase, Newcastle; Charles H. Miller, re-
issue, Lincoln.
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